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Heisman Trophy winner and Hurricanes legend, Gino Torretta, shares his takeaways from the Hurricanes victory over the Gators on Saturday. He explains why the game was too close for his liking and wants to see a more aggressive offensive approach by Miami.
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00:00Gino Toretta, the Heisman Trophy winner, joins us on Thursdays
00:05courtesy of the local 519 Plumbers Union.
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00:23Gino's on the Toyota of Hollywood hotline.
00:25Before we talk a little college football, I remind you the best place
00:28to get geared up is Canesware in Davie, canesware.com online.
00:34Gino, so Tuesday we read that college game day on the UM campus.
00:40I don't know if you saw this.
00:42College game day on the UM campus this past Saturday
00:45was the second highest rated game day in the history of ESPN.
00:51And so I was saying to Crowder and Solana and Jimmy and some guests yesterday,
00:56what does that mean to you?
00:58Like, how do you read into that?
01:00The way that I read into it is that there is a national appetite
01:04for the University of Miami when their football team is relevant.
01:08They still resonate across America.
01:12I don't think there's any question.
01:13I think Miami, Florida, Florida State.
01:15I mean, you know, you think about it, you know,
01:18when I was in school and a little before Chan,
01:21it was essentially the national championship went through the state.
01:24So I think the national, you know, nationally people think, okay,
01:28is this truly the time that maybe it does go through Miami and Florida State?
01:34We know it's not going to go through Gainesville after 24 yards of offense.
01:39But, Hawk, it's nice of you to talk to me because you did go to the game.
01:45You knew I was at the game.
01:47You knew I was going early to the game.
01:50I did not.
01:50And yet I see all kinds of posts and crap on social media,
01:54and you don't even come say hello.
01:56I'm right next to the QAM broadcast booth.
01:58I mean, I understand Channing.
02:00Man, it's a Florida Gator thing.
02:02And you know what?
02:03He didn't want to talk to me.
02:04It's a Miami thing.
02:05But you?
02:06Come on, man.
02:07I did not know that you were going to be there other than in the broadcast arena
02:11because I knew you were doing the game nationally for Touchdown Radio.
02:15But all of a sudden at halftime, I think it was halftime,
02:17I see you out on the field and they're talking about the stats.
02:20It was before the first and the second quarter.
02:22So you still had three quarters to come say hello.
02:24I couldn't get all the way up there.
02:26I was down in the lower bowl.
02:27I couldn't even get up to the club level.
02:29You couldn't get up there?
02:30I couldn't get up there.
02:31Joe Z has half of Section 114 come up during the game to say hello.
02:35Oh, Don Bailey has 120 come up during the game.
02:37I didn't know what to do.
02:38I didn't know what to do.
02:39I didn't, Mike.
02:40You know where they had me park?
02:42They had me park at the bottom of a canal.
02:44My car's still down there.
02:45You got my phone?
02:46Like, text me.
02:46Like, you know, I'm getting, hey, hey, I'm getting a statue.
02:50I think I could have worked to get you up in the booth.
02:53I know.
02:53I was stymied all night long, much like Florida's offense.
02:57Hey, Gino.
02:58It was a boring game.
03:00If I left that box I was in, I probably would have gotten a fight.
03:05Because Canes fans, they were giving me pure hell.
03:09And I messed around and wore a Gators t-shirt, too.
03:12So it was just, yeah.
03:14Well, at least you wouldn't have been like that, dude.
03:16I saw somebody, I think it was only a day, posted some Gator fan that was like just,
03:21I mean, he was probably like a .4 blood alcohol content standing next to the bathroom
03:26just peeing on the wall.
03:28I was like, oh, Lord.
03:30Like, how early do you, how early and what do you have to drink to just think that that's
03:36a good idea?
03:37And then the whole time people are videoing, he's not even looking over nothing.
03:40Just, oh, man, that was bad.
03:42I got there about 6.45, 7.
03:45And there were guys that were 5.3 cussing me out.
03:48And I was like, do you know how this is going to end if I really get upset about this?
03:54Well, they were saying, do you know how this is going to end on the football field?
03:57And you had no answer for that.
03:58And that's why I didn't want to leave the box.
04:02So, Cham, when are you already courting Kiffin?
04:08Or, you know, when does Florida?
04:11Because it seemed like all the Florida people were not a question of if,
04:17it was a question of when.
04:18I might have text Lane Kiffin just to feel out what's going on.
04:24How's he feeling?
04:25If he, you know, if he's comfortable doing it.
04:27I'm hearing John Gruden a lot, too, which I don't have a problem with.
04:31He just hadn't coached in so long.
04:33I don't know if Gruden would be a great college coach.
04:36I think he can coach, but I don't know about college.
04:38I think Gruden would be a great coach.
04:41I think both of them are great coaches.
04:42I think it's just he hasn't been, he hasn't done it in the college game.
04:47So, I would say maybe there's more of a question mark.
04:50Obviously, he's in Tampa, lives in Tampa, and that.
04:54And, you know, he's a total football junkie.
04:57So, he may have to get used to some other things that, you know,
05:01you have to deal with in college football nowadays.
05:04But, when you're talking X's and O's, I think he'd be, either one of those guys
05:10would be pretty darn good.
05:11But, hopefully, you guys keep Napier.
05:13He's building.
05:14He's building.
05:15I know.
05:16I know why you want us to keep Napier.
05:18Y'all can whoop our ass every year.
05:20No.
05:23Gino, did you have any sort of takeaway regarding Carson Beck's game?
05:27I think, like, the one thing that a lot of Canes fans were a little trepidatious about
05:33following the game was that Carson Beck didn't look fantastic, how he had in previous games.
05:38In my opinion, I mean, the one interception was bad.
05:42But, he just looked like somebody who understood the game plan.
05:44They were going to win it up front.
05:45He didn't have to force anything.
05:46They were going to grind out the game.
05:48But, I wonder if you took anything else away from his performance.
05:51I would say he looked very tentative.
05:54There was guys that were open.
05:55And, he was inaccurate with the ball.
05:58He didn't throw checkdowns.
06:00Now, I don't know what the deal was.
06:01You know, field conditions.
06:03I know it was wet and things like that.
06:06He threw three picks against him last year when he was a Georgia Bulldog.
06:09And, you know, listen, sometimes that memory comes back and you don't want to take any risk.
06:17And, I think he realized that.
06:19But, man, we were – I mean, he had 24 yards of offense and one first down in the first half.
06:26And, it was still only 10-0.
06:27I mean, I was going crazy because I was like, man, end the game in the second quarter.
06:32Just be aggressive.
06:33You know, when you guys were talking to OG yesterday about Miami Dolphins offense,
06:38it sounded like if you were just said, hey, I'm talking about Miami Hurricane offense,
06:42it seemed like the same thing.
06:44Because, at some point in time, like, we used to always be, you know, in Erickson,
06:49we're going to take a shot downfield.
06:51And, I don't know if it was once a quarter.
06:53We're going to take a shot because if that DB doesn't think you're going to try to run by him,
06:58they're just going to squat and it's not going to – there's going to be no big plays.
07:02And, Miami did not take a shot downfield.
07:05I mean, Shane Matthews was a couple boosts down and, you know, two old quarterbacks.
07:10And, Shane and I were like, gee, many Christmas.
07:13Boy, was that a boring game.
07:14Neither team taking shots downfield.
07:17Neither team aggressive with the ball.
07:20But, I thought Beck was a little tentative.
07:22I think he realized how good his defense was and how lackluster the Florida offense was.
07:31And, I think that he was probably just – you know, he was tight.
07:34He just seemed like, I'm not going to make a mistake to risk this with my team.
07:39I mean, but Florida, man, they cut it to six points in the fourth quarter.
07:43I mean, that was a ball game.
07:44You get a turnover, ball squirts out, and it could have been a whole different deal.
07:49Now, it didn't work out like that.
07:50I just – to me, it's like, you know, Notre Dame were up by two touchdowns,
07:55and we didn't step on their throat.
07:57Florida, 24 yards of offense in the first half, and we didn't step on the throat.
08:02That's the only thing I would say, though, if you said correct something.
08:05I mean, that's a Mario thing.
08:06That's kind of – like, he's happy to grind it out once they've got the lead.
08:11Yeah, but grinding it out, you know, when you've got the lead is not two scores.
08:15I mean, college football is, you know, three, four touchdowns.
08:20Okay, then do whatever you want.
08:21Play four-corner offense.
08:23I mean, you know, you go on the road to Tallahassee in a couple weeks,
08:26it's not going to be a situation where, you know,
08:30you can just grind it out from the start because they have some explosive playmakers
08:35and, you know, one guy slips out there.
08:38The game was too close for my liking as a Miami fan.
08:42And, you know, as a broadcaster, I know you have to watch it all,
08:46but as a Canes fan as well, I am – like, Castellano,
08:50I'm very interested in his UVA game because, to your point,
08:54DJ Lagway is not as good as Castellano right now.
08:58And whatever Florida State can do, I think this game can be a little –
09:02you know, I think the weather did affect the Canes approach
09:05because it was raining.
09:07It was downpour.
09:08I was up there in the box hiding.
09:09But is he – is he exceeding expectations?
09:13Because I didn't know he was this good.
09:14What was he at, UCF and Boston College?
09:16He's impressive right now.
09:18He's a good player.
09:19You know, he's an athlete.
09:20He can run around.
09:21He can spin it.
09:23And I think that as long as you're smart and fairly accurate with the ball in college,
09:29you can get the job done.
09:31And I think he's a good enough athlete, feels comfortable in their offense.
09:36I think with Florida State this week, and you know this, midweek games suck.
09:41And midweek games suck worse when they're on the road for you, the road team,
09:46because all of a sudden they're Sunday, Monday, and you're thinking,
09:50okay, I'm going to try to get healthy.
09:51And it's like you're putting in the game plan Monday morning, and, you know,
09:56Wednesday you're, you know, you're jumping on – you're getting ready to jump on a plane.
10:00There's not a lot of work.
10:01You got maybe two work days, truly, to get prepared for a team.
10:07And that's why I would say, Hawk, why the line's not bigger is road teams –
10:12you know, it does – I can remember Texas A&M came here years ago,
10:15and they were top ten.
10:16And it was a Thursday game, and, you know, they probably had a better roster than Miami.
10:21And people were like, oh, you know, Texas A&M's going to come in and kill us.
10:24And I was like, dude, it's a Thursday game.
10:27I go, they just came off a big game.
10:29They don't have enough time to prepare.
10:31It's just not – it's just – it is what it is.
10:34And I think – but Florida State should have enough weapons to kind of dispose of Virginia.
10:40But they have had some problems in the past, and that's what people are thinking.
10:45But Castellano can play – you know, one thing with Lagwe, one,
10:51apparently he should have had shoulder surgery after the bowl game last year.
10:54But his quote-unquote camp decided against it.
10:58He doesn't practice in the spring.
11:00You get a lot better as a quarterback getting reps in the spring.
11:03Doesn't practice in the spring.
11:04Doesn't practice in the fall.
11:05He somehow gets a hernia.
11:08And Shane said he pulled his calf muscle in a walkthrough.
11:12I mean, he was 250 pounds.
11:14That homeboy's thick.
11:16And, you know, thick and missing a lot of reps.
11:19Yeah.
11:20That's – you get what he's producing.
11:23You get a guy that's inefficient and still is making mistakes of a young freshman quarterback.
11:30Do you know, to go back to a Thursday game, I'm still hungover from Saturday on Thursday.
11:35I'm still hungover from Saturday.
11:37I'm still hungover from Saturday.
11:37I'm still hungover from Saturday.
11:38We played the different areas.
11:40Those guys don't know what beers are.
11:44Nowadays, they're taking the collagen and the creatine and all the protease supplements.
11:53I was with you.
11:55I was taking a disco and mad dog.
11:56Porn pitchers.
11:57Yeah.
11:58Yeah.
11:59Um, Gino Toretta is with us on Thursdays, courtesy of the local 519 plumbers union with
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12:21You've had a long relationship with plumbers 519 Gino and someone suggested on the text
12:27line that Solana with his brand new mustache looks like he might fit in at the old union
12:33meeting.
12:33Uh, what do you think of, uh, what Solana's got working there?
12:37The stash maybe, but I think when he showed up with those size 14 arms, that string coming
12:44out of his, out of his t-shirt, I think they may think, well, this obviously is a corporate
12:50guy and not a, uh, not a blue collar guy that's lifted, uh, some, uh, some heavy machinery
12:57equipment.
12:58If you, if you will, Hawk, he shows up at the union meeting.
13:02They're like, he's got the facial hair, but something's not adding up upper body.
13:07It looks like, what was the guy's name?
13:09Was it, was it three's company or, uh, Hawk our time?
13:13Like the three's company or the, the guy that had the, would, would put the pack of cigarettes
13:17in his white t-shirt Snyder, Snyder from one day at a time, like the building is super.
13:24Yeah.
13:25Yeah.
13:25You know what?
13:26Solana looks like a super belt on.
13:29He's got a little Snyder in him.
13:31I think you got to put that up on your, on your social, find a, find a picture of Snyder
13:35and say doppelganger for, uh, for Solana.
13:40He does look like Snyder.
13:42He does.
13:43I don't, I don't think we need to put that up on our social.
13:46So a lot of you're not even old enough to know who Snyder is.
13:52I mean, I can do a Mount Rushmore of supers because you're going to have Snyder.
13:56You're going to have a bookman of course, from, uh, good times.
14:00Yeah.
14:01And, uh, the super Joe Pesci, he was, he was a super another, uh, they don't even call it.
14:08They don't call building maintenance guys supers anymore though.
14:11Do they?
14:11They don't.
14:12I don't.
14:13Hey, I'm Hawk.
14:14I'm, I'm helping out Gulliver high school, their quarterbacks.
14:18Cause Wesley Carroll son's a receiver.
14:19So he asked me to come help out.
14:21So I help out.
14:22And, and, uh, we had to go in the gymnasium and the kids laughed at me for calling it
14:27the gymnasium.
14:31I go, I go, I know your generation.
14:33Should all you guys do is like shorten the words sound as short as possible or use the
14:38first initial of like five or six of them.
14:41They killed me last week and the week before for using town car as a, town, the car, town,
14:48who says, you know, I love a town car, when you, when you got a town car in New York, you
14:54could take a six hour nap in the back of that.
14:57Thursday night, you'd be on the way to LaGuardia, just snoozing away in the back of a town car.
15:03I love a Wes Carroll reference on the show, by the way.
15:05I love Wes Carroll.
15:06He's a good dude.
15:07Gino Toretta.
15:08He's with us on Thursdays.
15:10What game are you doing this weekend?
15:11Uh, LSU Ole Miss.
15:13So, uh, should be, should be a big one.
15:15It is like, this has come down to the last possession the last few years.
15:19It should be a lot of offense.
15:22Um, little, little trip out to the, uh, Grove prior to check out the scenery and, and maybe
15:29sample some of the, uh, some of the barbecue out there and offerings.
15:34What's that feeling?
15:35The fine offerings of fine offering.
15:37Well, you can't sample all of the fine, you know, they're not all offerings.
15:41They're just scenery.
15:42If you will.
15:43If you see, uh, if you see Lane Kiffin, tell him I love him.
15:47I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll wear a shirt.
15:51I should get a sign and say, Channing Crowder loves you.
15:54Like when he walks, I'll go down on the field.
15:56So when he comes on, when he's walking his dog on the field, leading, leading the team,
16:00I'll make sure he knows you're getting, he's getting love from Florida.
16:05Gino Toretta, courtesy of the local five 19 plumbers union, visit plumbers five 19.com.
16:11Thank you, Gino.
16:12All right, guys.
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